Exploring NASA

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Exploring NASA

The Figge will light up the night sky this summer with a one-of-a-kind projection installation. Hubble Telescope images, children's drawings of astronauts and rockets, launch sequences and radio telescope images will be projected on the western exterior of the Figge building in the evening hours during the length of the exhibition.

Artist Bruce Walters, in collaboration with a team of artists, musicians, technicians and scientists, supervised the development of this installation to communicate a sense of optimism about the future and to convey a sense of collective effort and pursuit of knowledge. NASA represents to the artist the collective will to expand human understanding through a synthesis of technology, vision and courage. This artwork is intended to create a bold, interdisciplinary link between the arts and physics.

Enjoy a short video on the radio telescope section of Exploring NASA. This section of Exploring NASA centers on the radio telescope research by Dr. Esteban Araya, astrophysicist and assistant professor at Western Illinois University. Editing and soundtrack by Bruce Walters.

Enjoy a short video on the children's art section of Exploring NASA. This section of Exploring NASA includes more than 200 children's drawings and paintings -primarily from Garfield Elementary, but also from Eisenhower, Grant Wood, Hopewell, Jefferson, Mark Twain, McKinley Elementary Schools in Bettendorf, Davenport and Pleasant Valley, IA. Editing and soundtrack by Bruce Walters.

Bruce Walters, John Glenn, 2012, pencil on paper, courtesy of the artist.